Is this a troll? The French and English economies basically lived through the 20s on German reparations (and the occupation on the Ruhr) - even though most of it was immediately redirected to repaying debt owed to the US. Quite a lot of territory was taken from the Reich: Alsace-Moselle, Eupen-Malmédy, Schleswig-Holstein, part of Silesia, western Poland, Dantzig and Memel. (I don't have the figures here but this is probably the same order of magnitude as the territory taken from DDR+BRD in 45). And on the contrary, reparations were paid to Germany after WW2: that's called the Marshall Plan and it is widely acknowledged as one reason WW3 did not happen (yet).